Tests Reveal Popular Wine Brands That Are Full Of Deadly Arsenic

Numerous people think that they’re getting a good deal when they grab a cheap bottle of wine off of the shelf. However, the main problem with these cheap wines is the fact that they contain heavy metals that might be killing you silently from the inside.

If you are a wine drinker or you have family members and friends that love wine, you will want to keep reading. It turns out that some popular wine brands are full of deadly arsenic, and there are evidences based on research in regards to these claims.

Chronic levels of arsenic, including low levels of organic levels, can accumulate and inhibit the body’s natural process of eliminating other heavy metals. Arsenic of any type is also carcinogenic but, inorganic arsenic is the most toxic, and typically found in cheap wines.

Arsenic can also appear in ground water, but the EPA limit for ground water is 10 parts arsenic to a billion parts water. According to a recent class action suit filed March 2015 in Los Angeles, CA, several wines contain 500% or more than what’s allowed in drinking water.

Several winery representatives from the 28 wineries in the suit claim that allowing more arsenic in wine makes sense, because “people drink more water than wine, and water is the only beverage with an arsenic baseline that is monitored by the government.”

The wines were tested by Kevin Hicks, a former wine distributor who started a wine testing lab in Denver, known as BeverageGrades. Of the 1,300 California wines tested, around 1/4 of the bottles showed arsenic levels higher than the EPA’s allowable water level. The cheaper the wines, the higher the arsenic levels.

If you buy your wine from a health food store, that doesn’t mean you’re safe from high arsenic levels. Trader Joe’s Charles Shaw or “Two-Buck Chuck” made the list. Read below to see what other wines made the dangerous list.